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After testing the FineReader, OmniPage, ReadIRIS, and SimpleOCR, Aspire,
Tesseract….it is evident that ABBYY FineReader 9 is the best overall value,
while ReadIRIS is the best OCR software for under $150.
The main features that differentiate OCR software are:
Character recognition accuracy Page layout reconstruction accuracy Support
for languages Support for searchable PDF output Speed User interface API /
SDK Support / Consulting Stability of the engine when processing large
documents
Following are some of the Softwares that I played with and compared.
SimpleOCR SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of
thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for
developers to use in their custom applications. If you have a scanner and
want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way to d... (more)
Recently, I had to use the PGP for the first time when one of my colleague
wanted to send some documents securely. Over all, this is an easy process and
works quite well. I use Windows XP, Thunderbird and gnupg for this to work.
Following are some instruction to do this…
You download the software from http://www.gnupg.org if you’re using
Windows. If you have Linux, you most likely already have GnuPG.
Enigmail is the plug-in for Thunderbird. You can get it from
https://addons.mozilla.org. Alternately, on GNOME-based Linux, check out
Seahorse. You can use GnuPG with Outlook, but it... (more)
For the people who are not in technology/computer industry, it seems to be
too hard to believe that Google is more than just an e-mail service and
Search Engine.
I compiled few important legal privacy notices from Google Website and you
can imagine how your data, emails, chats, mobile apps and Buzz can be used.
“Google may know you more than your parents, wife and kids“
Google Buzz
Website : http://www.google.com/buzz/help/privacy.html
When you first enter Google Buzz, to make the startup experience easier, we
may automatically select people for you to follow based on the people you... (more)
Suresh Krishna's Blog
The year that's just ended was a terrific one for the proliferation of new
technologies and frameworks. I have been hearing a lot about the following
technologies in the year 2008: mashups, cloud computing, domain modeling,
Eclipse - especially Equinox, Single Sourcing, and EclipseLink.
Mashups : JackBe is an Enterprise Mashup software company and has the series
of products like Presto Server, Presto Composer and Presto Connectors. They
also have a great Eclipse Plugin to support the advanced developer. This
gives Java programmers complete control to design, ... (more)
I would not have written this blog in the year 2000 and by now I am highly
opinionated towards Google, of course in a good way. During my graduation
years (1996-2000), I used Rediff and Yahoo! search for my college projects,
and ACM seminars. In the year 1996/1998, Google was known but to very few
people. But nowadays Google is not just an Internet search company but a
worldwide phenomenon that changed the way everyone thinks.
Google virtually got implanted in today’s life of everyone. I was quite
amazed with the following news from Yahoo CEO in the annual shareholder
meeting.
W... (more)
Suresh Krishna works for a major Utilities company with a focus on frameworks and tools. He is passionate about the developer productivity and tools and blogs at 
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